fable of the bees

or, private vices, publick benefits

by Bernard Mandeville

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Published 1966 by Clarendon Press in Oxford .
Written in English

Subjects:

• Charity-schools.,
• Virtue.,
• Ethics.

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Edition Notes

Statement	by Bernard Mandeville ; with a commentary critical, historical, and explanatory by F.B. Kaye.
Contributions	Kaye, F.B.
Classifications
LC Classifications	BJ1520 .M4 1966
The Physical Object
Pagination	2 v. :
ID Numbers
Open Library	OL18567371M

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About the work In his The Fable of the Bees, Mandeville constructs a somewhat satirical explanation praising the "private vices" of selfishness because they produce virtues and "public benefits," including those of social origins, social welfare, and social progress. Mandeville's shrewd insight into the motivations of human beings has often delighted many persons who believe that human. Fable of the Bees. 49 likes. Tim Constable - electric guitar Steve Crickett - drums Andrew Hobday - vocals, bass guitar Paul James - vocals. Drew Taylor - electric violin Paul Woloschuk - keyboards.

Lily, a fourteen-year-old white girl, lives alone with her father, a peach farmer, in Sylvan, South Carolina. As the novel opens, she lies in bed, waiting for the bees that live in the walls of her bedroom to emerge and fly around, as they do most nights. T. Ray, her father, is abusive and does not. The best way to know if it is a first edition is to do a typographic comparison. An edition of a book is one that uses the exact same* setting of type. Because the Fable of the Bees was published in , the book would have been set and justified by hand. The 'justified by hand' part is critical here. A physician with a particular interest in psychological disorders and satirist, the author published versions of his notorious "Fable of the Bees" from to Each was a defence and elaboration of his short satirical poem "The Angry Hive, ".

Related names. Contributor: Mandeville, Bernard, Hundert, E. J. Subjects. Ethics. Virtue. Social ethics. Summary "Although never censored, Bernard Mandeville's anonymously published The Fable of the Bees; or Private Vices, Public Benefits came to be regarded soon after its publication in as the Enlightenment's epitome of immorality. Sep 05,  · A physician with a particular interest in psychological disorders and satirist, Mandeville published versions of his notorious Fable of the Bees from to Each was a defence and elaboration of his short satirical poem The Angry Hive, /5(). The work now lay fallow for almost a decade, until, in ,6 it reappeared as part of an anonymous book called The Fable of the Bees: or, Private Vices, Publick Benefits, in which the original poem was followed by a prose commentary, explaining, in the form of An Enquiry into the Origin of Moral Virtue and twenty ‘Remarks’, divers of the.